[webkit-dev] Disjointed selection ranges

[Glenn Adams]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Shezan Baig <shezbaig.wk at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> We are using embedded WebKit in our application, and we need to be
>> able to use disjointed selection ranges for table editing.  I was
>> wondering whether anybody is currently working on implementing this,
>> and is there any bug number for it?  If not, I will attempt to
>> implement it based on the approach described by Eric in [1] and [2].
>>
>
> I don't think we should implement general multi-range selection. It causes
> all sorts of hell in editing.
>

keep in mind that you need this or something much like it to handle correct
selection in some complex scripts (e.g., indic scripts) as well as bidi
contexts

for example, a single displayed ligature glyph may map to multiple
*disjoint* characters in the original unicode text
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